According to a report issued by the Government of India, Pilibhit is one of the Minority Concentrated Areas in India on the basis of the 2001 census data on population, socio-economic indicators and basic amenities indicators. Though separated only by a short distance from the outer ranges of the Himalayas, Pilibhit consists entirely of a level plain, containing depressions but no hills and is intersected by several streams. Pilibhit is one of the forest rich areas of Uttar Pradesh, which has very high tourism potential. The almost 54km-long Indo-Nepal international border makes Pilibhit a highly sensitive for security purposes. According an estimate by the Government of India, Pilibhit has 45.23% of its population living under the poverty line. Increasing population and unemployment is a cause of worry in the area, and many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and government-run organizations have initiated projects to provide employment, but human resources are yet to be exploited in full. The city came third-bottom in terms of hygiene and sanitation in a Government ranking list of 423 towns and cities in India.

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Pilibhit (Assembly constituency)

Pilibhit Assembly constituency (Hindi:पीलीभीत विधान सभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Pilibhit district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Pilibhit (Lok Sabha constituency). First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the "DPACO (1956)" (delimitation order) was passed in 1956. After the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order" was passed in 2008, the constituency was assigned identification number 127.

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Pilibhit. Nearly two dozen villages in PilibhitSadar, Amaria and Bisalpur subdivisions have been hit by ... The worst effects villages are in Amaria subdivision, where the Majhola-Birhani road, which connects Pilibhit with Udham Sing Nagar district in Uttarakhand, has been completely swept away....

Pilibhit. Following the orders of the Pilibhit city magistrate, the district probation officer lodged an FIR against the warden of a shelter home, Swadhar, and the promoter of the Lucknow-based organization running the home here ...District probation officer SK Nigam, who filed the FIR, said that the action came after the review of Swadhar records which revealed financial embezzlement of government funds....

Pilibhit. The forest authorities of PilibhitTiger Reserve, Dudhwa Tiger Reserve and those of adjoining forest divisions met on Saturday at DTR headquarters to discuss safety measures for protecting wildlife that must be taken by PWD, which is constructing an Indo-Nepal border road from Pilibhit’s Lagga-Bagga forest area to Maharajganjdistrict....

Both district... In Pilibhit, the district administration found that the women’s shelter home had 30 inmates on their rolls but only seven could be verified after a detailed inquiry. Pilibhitdistrict magistrate Akhilesh Mishra said, “We found that the organisation had inflated its figure probably hoping to get funds from the government.”....

In two shelter homes in Pratapgarh, 26 women were found missing during a raid conducted by district magistrate Shambhu Kumar.&nbsp; ... In Pilibhitdistrict, 23 inmates out of the 30 named in the register, were found missing....

Pilibhit... She was later admitted to a district government hospital at Pilibhit ... Victim’s father Ishtiaq, a local fruit vendor, said he and his wife had gone to see a doctor in Kheri district on ......

Pilibhit. district administration is now preparing to demolish 31 shops illegally constructed on old district hospital campus by the zila panchayat four years ago ... According to revenue records, the zila panchayat is the “custodian” of the district hospital but does not have the right to construct or make any extensions on the government property....

Pilibhit. A three-member team of turtle survival alliance (TSA), headed by its India program director, Dr Shailendra Singh, on Saturday gave one-day training to the personnel of PilibhitTiger Reserve, social forestry department and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Pilibhit. The training is being viewed as a milestone in mitigating man-crocodile conflict in the district....

Three people died in Kanpur, two each in Shahjahanpur, Gonda, Banda and Unnao districts. One person each died in Barabanki, Kannauj, Kanpur Dehat, Firozabad, Ambedkar Nagar and Pilibhitdistricts, said a state government officer ...Heavy rainfall in Gonda, Bahraich and Faizabaddistricts led to increase in the water level of Ghaghra ... The villagers were shifted to safer spots, a district administration officer said....

Pilibhit... The spot is in Pilibhitdistrict, merely 150 yards from the international border ... The forest area in this part of Pilibhit is under the control of North Kheri forest division of Lakhimpuri Kheri district....

Pilibhit. District magistrate Akhilesh KumarMishra has ordered testing of foodgrain and wheat flour used to prepare midday meals for students at SKJP Upper Primary School in Bisalpur after it came to his notice that rotting wheat flour was kneaded to prepare rotis ... The quality control is the responsibility of district inspector of school as ......